Full Freeview on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter
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The symbol shows the location of the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 410,000 homes. The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.
This transmitter has no current reported problems
The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmitter._______
Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which Freeview channels does the Oxford transmitter broadcast?
If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.
64QAM 8K 3/4 27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
DTG-12 QSPK 8K 3/4 8.0Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2
H/V: aerial position (horizontal or vertical)
Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Oxford transmitter?
BBC South (Oxford) Today 0.4m homes 1.6%
from Oxford OX2 7DW, 6km west-southwest (258°)
to BBC South (Oxford) region - 6 masts.
BBC South (Oxford) Today shares 50% content with Southampton service
ITV Meridian News 0.9m homes 3.4%
from Whiteley PO15 7AD, 102km south (182°)
to ITV Meridian/Central (Thames Valley) region - 15 masts.
Thames Valley opt-out from Meridian (South). All of lunch, weekend and 50% evening news is shared with all of Meridian+Oxford
How will the Oxford (Oxfordshire, England) transmission frequencies change over time?
| 1950s-80s | 1984-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-2011 | 2011-13 | 2013-18 | 2013-17 | 23 May 2018 | ||
| VHF | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E | C/D E T | W T | W T | ||
| C2 | BBCtvwaves | ||||||||
| C29 | SDN | ||||||||
| C31 | com7 | com7 | |||||||
| C37 | com8 | com8 | |||||||
| C41 | BBCA | ||||||||
| C44 | D3+4 | ||||||||
| C46 | _local | ||||||||
| C47 | BBCB | ||||||||
| C49tv_off | C5waves | C5waves | |||||||
| C50tv_off | SDN | SDN | |||||||
| C51tv_off | LOX | LOX | |||||||
| C53tv_off | C4waves | C4waves | C4waves | +BBCA | +BBCA | +BBCA | |||
| C55tv_off | ArqB | ArqB | ArqB | com7tv_off | |||||
| C56tv_off | COM8tv_off | ||||||||
| C57tv_off | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBC1waves | BBCB | BBCB | BBCB | |||
| C59tv_off | -ArqA | -ArqA | -ArqA | ||||||
| C60tv_off | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | ITVwaves | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | -D3+4 | |||
| C62 | SDN | ||||||||
| C63 | BBC2waves | BBC2waves | BBC2waves |
tv_off Being removed from Freeview (for 5G use) after November 2020 / June 2022 - more
Table shows multiplexes names see this article;
green background for transmission frequencies
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W T
waves denotes analogue; digital switchover was 14 Sep 11 and 28 Sep 11.
How do the old analogue and currrent digital signal levels compare?
| Analogue 1-4 | 500kW | |
| BBCA, D3+4, BBCB | (-7dB) 100kW | |
| SDN, ARQA, ARQB | (-10dB) 50kW | |
| Analogue 5 | (-11dB) 40kW | |
| com8 | (-14.7dB) 17.1kW | |
| com7 | (-14.8dB) 16.4kW | |
| Mux 1*, Mux 2*, LOX | (-17dB) 10kW | |
| Mux C*, Mux D* | (-18dB) 8kW | |
| Mux A*, Mux B* | (-19.2dB) 6kW |
Which companies have run the Channel 3 services in the Oxford transmitter area
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Saturday, 1 June 2013
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jb3810:07 AM
Small Dog: Thanks for your update on the situation and pleased to hear that all is OK after the retune, however I do have to say that the improvement in reception from the hitherto problems mentioned could simply be down to the result of the rapidly occurring seasonal changes that have taken place over the last few weeks, as the effect of is always experienced to a greater degree where a person is located in a non line-of-sight situation such as applies in your case and where reception is always via an element of signal diffraction, (bending etc) as the direct signal path from Oxford is according to the terrain checker being obstructed from approximately 4 miles out from you, this of course is only referring to the land and excluding the effects such as from trees on the land, these adding to the problem
However, your aerial as far as its response to the lower channels is concerned would appear to be OK, although the SDN signal should be fractionally better by the fact of it having moved downwards in frequency, as lower frequencies are always better at getting over obstructions caused by such as trees etc, because other than that aspect nothing else has really changed with any of the other channels.
By the way, what I mentioned about seasonal changes being a factor connected with your reception problems is down to the fact that of your postings having been centred around the months of the year where the main changes are liable to be experienced, e.g: May 2010 / September - October 2011 / March to May 2012 / and of course May 2013.
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Monday, 3 June 2013
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Paul7:45 AM
Why does "Which BBC and ITV regional news can I watch from the Oxford transmitter?" above state that Oxford transmits Central news?
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Paul: That's because that is what the ITV site says it does - www.itvmedia.co.uk/platforms/itv-regions .
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and also this PDF shows it too http://www.itvmedia.co.uk….pdf .
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Paul.2:02 PM
Those sites aer correct to state that Oxford is in the Central ITV area. However, it transmits Meridian News, not Central News.
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Paul.: OK... If that's the case can you provide a primary source for that please? Would also like to know what ridge hill provides for local news?
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Paul: Yes... the links from the search page say says Oxford is in Central South.
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KMJ,Derby5:50 PM
Briantist: I can't remember where I saw it, but Ridge Hill transmits Central West news. As you say the DUK map shows Oxford as part of the Central region as it is still officially included in the Central licence but DUK does also mention that viewers will receive Meridian news. Wikipedia has details of the short lived Thames Valley region which used to transmit from Hannington and Oxford. This region was then amalgamated with Meridian South for news coverage, but interestigly it is still mentioned online with up to date news stories.
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Mike Dimmick6:13 PM
Briantist: This is the knock-on effect of the creation, and then shut-down, of the ITV Thames Valley non-franchise news region. ITV plc were permitted to move Oxford to the new Thames Valley region in Variation 3 of their 2004 licence (issued on 10 March 2008):
http://licensing.ofcom.or….pdf
"In addition, the Licensee shall include in the Licensed service in the Central South region a weekly average of at least 5 hours 20 minutes of news programmes of particular interest to persons living in this sub region. The Central South service may be shared with the ITV Meridian West service, as a Thames Valley service."
And then in Variation 6 of 19 June 2009, the reference to Thames Valley was removed:
http://licensing.ofcom.or….pdf
"News programmes in the sub-region served by the Oxford transmitter and associated relays may be shared with the Meridian West sub-region of the ITV Meridian regional Channel 3 service."
Since the ITV News website no longer has a regional map, it's hard to confirm that they're actually doing it, but I did note this story from Bicester (11 miles north-north-east of Oxford) in the Meridian section: Fire crews tackle Bicester blaze - ITV News
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